New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is in the midst of a hot streak and reached a milestone Saturday afternoon in an 8-2 victory against the Kansas City Royals (box score). Judge hit his 42nd home run of the season — his 12th in his last 14 games — and it was his 200th career home run. Kyle Schwarber (32) and Yordan Alvarez (30) are the only other players with even 30 home runs this season.
Here’s Judge’s 42nd homer of 2022. It comes a day after he hit two homers and robbed a homer:
Judge is the first player in Yankees history to hit 42 home runs before August and is the second fastest player in baseball history to 200 homers. Here is the leaderboard:
“Like I’ve said a thousand times, I’m focused on winning baseball games right now,” Judge told MLB.com after Friday’s game when asked about possibly hitting 60 home runs. “The stats and stuff, we can talk about that at the end of the year.”
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The Yankees played their 102nd game of the season on Saturday. The Yankees — and American League — single-season record for home runs is 61 by Roger Maris in 1961. To match that total, Judge must hit 19 homers in his team’s final 60 games. Seeing as how he’s gone deep 12 times in his last 14 games, we’re officially on record.
Judge, 30, took a .297/.378/.668 batting line into Saturday’s game. He leads baseball in runs (84), RBIs (89) and total bases (250) other than home runs. Judge famously turned down a seven-year, $213.5 million extension in spring training and will become a free agent after the season.
